Ruggles, Daniel (1810-1897) [Special Orders No. 1authorizing Richard Bayly WInder to take charge of his department]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07271.06.01 Author/Creator: Ruggles, Daniel (1810-1897) Place Written: Danville, Virginia Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 3 April 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 22.5 x 15 cm. Order a Copy
Signed by Ruggles as Commissary General of Prisons and countersigned by Samuel T. Bayly as acting assistant general. The department Major Winder was to take charge of was at Andersonville Prison.
Daniel Ruggles was an 1833 graduate of West Point who served in the Seminole War and the Mexican War. In 1861, he resigned from the United States Army and became a commissioned officer in the Confederate Army.
Major Richard Bayly Winder served as Quartermaster throughout the Civil War. He was a cousin of Gen. John H. Winder and was implicated in the mistreatment of prisoners at Andersonville Prison.
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